VERNACULAR SONG GENRES: ITALY

Chapter:

CHAPTER 17 Commercial and Literary Music

Source:

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

And what were the songs like that the early printers printed, the early collectors collected, and the early consumers consumed?
They differed markedly, like their languages, from country to country, in contrast to the sacred lingua franca of the ars
perfecta. At first they all reflected the earlier courtly fixed forms in their poetry, but their novel musical textures reflected
the new conditions of trade.

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 17 Commercial and Literary Music. In Oxford University Press, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. New York, USA.
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